Word: suspended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher proved truly resolute. She announced that Britain would stop supplying the Soviets with high technology, would refuse to negotiate new trade agreements with them and would suspend visits by Soviet officials, including Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. In private she scoffed at the continental allies as "bloody wets," meaning, roughly, drips...